#machines

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#extensive #great #information #lines #machines

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#free #higher #lower #machines #more

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. ↗

— Christo

#ideas #lots #machines #see #you

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#clear #efficient #greatness #imperfection #machines

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #communications #cultural #cultural issues #due

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. ↗

— Mike Myers

#ask #back #characters #hear #i

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. ↗

— Jose C. Orozco

#could #earth #fashion #into #iron

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different